Sunday, February 19, 2012

2011 a Year in Review

2011 has come and gone, and once again the blog has become neglected. Oh well...Let me give a quick review of what has gone on. 2011 was a fun year. :)

January and February brought lost of smiles, sleep, and brother bonding moments...
Happy Cameron 2years old
Happy Aiden 10months old
Playing together in the ironing basket.
Aiden loves to be next to his big brother.
Sweet dreams Cameron.
Aiden can sleep anywhere as long as he has his blanket...except the car...

March brought some big first for Aiden and Cameron had lot of fun...
Fist Aidens 1st birthday. He had fun but he did not like his cake! Drum roll please....Aiden is no longer intolerant of milk protein!!!
Happy 1st b-day Aiden!
Second, Aiden learned to walk!
Cameron has been going to toddler school since January and has a lot of fun! He really has enjoyed the art projects.



April, Cameron turned three!! Yikes!
Cameron LOVES Thomas the train!
Happy 3rd Birthday Cameron!
The boys love to decorate the house with their clip on ties.
Hi Mom!
Sleeping in the basket...
May, Cameron started preschool,
Waiting for the bus.
and Aiden got his first hair cut.
Do I look cute?

June. June brought lots of changes. Nathan finished his 2nd year of pharmacy school, we moved, and went on vacation. The weather was so nice...we spent a lot of time outside!!
Having fun with the tire swing.
Aiden has no fear when it comes to heights! He was all over that play set.

Cameron loves to ride his bike!
"Dad can I drive?" We went to a drive in movie while in AZ.
Enjoying a brownie while at Grandma and Grandpa M's house.

July we decided to slow down and have some fun as a family before Nathan started his pharmacy rotations.
We took the kids to the zoo. Aiden and Nathan really liked the zoo but Cameron had a hard time with it. He did not like the crowd and the big dinosaurs that made noise...
Daddy and Cameron at the zoo.
Had fun at Wheeler Farm.
Watching the goats.
Daddy and Cameron having fun with the tractor.
All smiles!
Making a funny face.
Aiden got really MAD with me for washing his blanket.
Trying to get into the laundry room to rescue his blanket from the washer.
This is totally mean Mom!!
The boys took the car for a joy ride.
Having way to much fun!
We went camping
Enjoying Daddy's hammock.
And last but not least we took the kids to the float preview party for the Day of '47 parade. Cameron did not like it!
But Nathan loved seeing this!


August we stayed close to home. We went to our stake carnival, goofed around at home, and Cameron started preschool again.
I love this smile!!! (He is jumping on the couch while I took this picture)
Evil smile! Aiden went on a destruction of Cameron's blocks after I took this picture.
Chilling at the stake carnival.
Cameron wanted an orange smiley face.
First day of Cameron's new preschool. He was so excited!

September the boys loved to play outside.
Having fun playing soccer.
Having fun!
Watch out Mom here I come!

In October we had the pleasure of Nathan's parents visiting us from Arizona. They helped us celebrate Nathan's birthday a few days early.
Grandma M.
Grandpa M.
Guess who is turning 28?
Nathan went to Atlanta, Georgia with some classmate to present a report that they had been working on for a long time! I think Nathan really enjoyed himself in Atlanta.
This is the poster that Nathan put together.
For Halloween Cameron was a fireman and Aiden was Yoda.
Happy boys.

November was the month for the messes!! These boys got into everything!
First they decided that lotion and diaper cream goes in their hair...
Oh my....
"Hi Mom...I all clean!"
Then they decided to sit down for a nutella picnic. Later on in the month they sat down for another picnic of peanut-butter and later on sour cream. I swear I do feed them!!
Want some?

December was a good month. We had a good Christmas and had fun being with family. My boys have a funny habit on Christmas morning...when we go to get them out of their room to open presents, for the past two years they both have taken off the pj's...I really don't know why!
Aiden Christmas morning.
Cameron Christmas morning.
Nathan got me this pretty pan set! I LOVE it!!
Mr. Kung Fu!!!
The boys LOVED this bouncer! Too bad it only lasted lest then 24hours. :(
All in all we had a good year!

Thursday, July 14, 2011

VACATION!!! Part 1

There has been lots of things going on around the McClellan house hold. Nathan was able to finish his second year of pharmacy school the first week of June (I am so excited we only have one year left of school!!). We moved to a new apartment on the second week of June and two days after the move we went on vacation to Arizona. Call us crazy but it was well worth the craziness ;).

It was fun being able to see Nathan's family as well as seeing my Aunt and Uncle and some friends. I have to admit that there was a bit of a weather shock, when we left Utah it was sixty degrees (that was our high for the day), when we got to Arizona it was in the one-hundreds. We got roasted but we had fun.

Aiden isn't quite sure why he is still in the car when it has been a little over an hour already. 6-20-2011

Are we there yet? 6-20-2011

Exploring Grandma M's toys. 6-20-2011

So HAPPY to be out the car!! 6-20-2011

I look good in these glasses Mom. 6-21-2011

We gave Cameron our dieing camera. He had a blast with it! 6-20-2011
 While down in Arizona we had the opportunity to take Cameron and Aiden to the Children's Museum of Phoenix. The boys had a blast!! Lets just say they slept very will that night. :)

Aiden loved that fact that he can go up the stairs by himself and then going down the slide (that is the shinny thing in the picture). He did this for a couple of hours. 6-22-2011

Cameron trying to figure out how this thing works. 6-22-2011

Aiden is still going up the stairs and down the slide, while Grandpa M (the guy in the orange shirt in the back of me) looks on. 6-22-2011

Having fun in a maze. 6-22-2011

Still going up the stairs and down the slide...no Aiden is not eating the railing he was talking to me when I took the picture. 6-22-2011

Cameron and Aiden were trying to decided whether or not it would be fun to paint rocks with water. 6-22-2011

Having fun driving cars. 6-22-2011

Cameron loved this toy. Every time he would let a car go at the top he would squeal with delight as he watched the car go to the bottom. 6-22-2011

Aiden had to check out what his brother was squealing about. 6-22-2011

Looking cool Dude. :) 6-22-2011

Need I say anything. :) 6-22-2011

Cameron was the master at finding quiet spaces where no one would bother him. Here he is doing a puzzle with Grandpa M. 6-22-2011

This is some weird sculpture that the museum had for the kids to paint. Cameron loved painting. 6-22-2011

This table was fun. There was fine sand on top that you could move around. If you look closely you can see Cameron's hand print. 6-22-2011

Cameron got a kick out of this thing. He had fun putting balls of fabric in it and watching it fly out and hit people passing. 6-22-2011

Having fun building a fort. 6-22-2011

Aiden trying to get involved in the fort building action. 6-22-2011

Sleeping Boys

I love it when my boys sleep. But what is more fun is to see where these guys can sleep.

Our little dare devil (Aiden) finally asleep. :) 6-13-2011

Sweet dreams Cameron. 6-13-2011

Snuggling up to Dad after church. 6-19-2011

I have never been able to figure out how the boys can sleep in their car seats. It looks so uncomfortable. Aiden is taking one of many naps on the way to Arizona to see Grandma and Grandpa M. 6-20-2011

I wonder what Cameron is dreaming about?...Thomas the Tank Engine?  6-21-2011

Aiden and Cameron were sharing a bed when we we visited Grandpa and Grandma M. Poor Cameron got kicked out of bed when Aiden decided to take over. 6-22-2011

Aiden cracks me up! He LOVES my laundry basket. He slept like this for two hours. I still do not know how he can sleep in that basket. 4-20-2011